Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

The Colony, TX ranks #1,714 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,949 patents from 246 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in The Colony, TX include Capital One Services, Texas Instruments, USAA. That works out to 43.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 246 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Qiaochu Tang Capital One Services 247
2 Ross E. Teggatz Texas Instruments 134
3 Ryan Thomas Russell USAA 111
#4 Eric Berg Lennox Industries 86
#5 Ramakrishna R. Yannam Bank of America 56
#5 Christopher Russell USAA 56
#7 Staevan Duckworth Capital One Services 52
#8 Satyajit P. Patne Toyota 44
#9 Justin Pendleton Danco 41
#10 Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr. University Of Texas System 32
#10 Kade Scott USAA 32
#12 William August Stahlhut Bank of America 31
#13 Jeffrey A. Niehaus Texas Instruments 29
#14 Donald L. Clemens Thermalloy 28
#15 Daniel Joseph Serna Bank of America 22
#15 Masahiro Muramatsu Yazaki 22
#17 Michael E. Embree Oreck Holdings 21
#17 John Tran 21
#19 David C. Arnquist Abbott 19
#20 David Gillam Capital One Services 18
#20 Richard L. Scott Phillips Petroleum 18
#22 Timothy Edward Harms Halliburton Energy Services 17
#22 Pete Dagenais Halliburton Energy Services 17
#24 James P. VanCleave Spectrum Tracking Systems 15
#24 Todd Michael Coleman Ac Avalanche 15
#24 Marc Yap Osteomed 15
#24 Nicholas C. Wheeler USAA 15
#28 Timothy Francis Hall Trinity Innovative Solutions 14
#28 Steven D. Sensel Dsc Communications 14
#28 Dwight David Harms Trinity Innovative Solutions 14
#31 Justin Discoe Mattel 13
#31 Rafael C. Alfaro Texas Instruments 13
#31 Michael R. Kushnerik Toyota 13
#31 James V. Sullivan US Dept of Health & Human Services 13
#31 Harold L. Davis Thomson Components-Moster 13
#31 He Yang State Farm 13
#37 Ronald D. Higgins Cisco 12
#37 Mark DeMoss Mci Communications 12
#39 Phillip T. Thomas Halliburton Energy Services 11
#39 Veronica C. Smith Bank of America 11
#39 Steven Swendrowski Thomson Components-Moster 11
#39 Carlos Bacigalupe Stewart Systems 11
#43 Rawley Stanhope Ebi 10
#44 Douglas B. Weiner Texas Instruments 9
#44 Nathan L. Edwards AT&T 9
#44 Tao Yang Verizon 9
#47 James Land Capital One Services 8
#47 Octavio Jose De Franca Lima Ericsson 8
#47 Dianna L. Sabo Global Caravan Technologies 8
#47 Jason Reagan Corning Cable Systems 8

Part of Texas